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Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture: A Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions
ISBN: 9780786468164 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the increase. This has followed the increased use of such characters as metaphors, with novelists and critics identifying specific meanings and topics behind them. This book aims to unravel the shapeshifting trope. Rather than pursue a case-based study, the works are grouped around specific themes--adolescence, gender, sexuality, race, disability, addiction, and spirituality--that are explored through the metaphor of shapeshifting. Because of its transformative possibilities and its flexibility, the...
In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the increase. This has followed the increased use of such ch...
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John Brunner
ISBN: 9780252078811 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, John Brunner (1934 1995) was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of the late twentieth century. During his exemplary career, the British author wrote with a stamina matched by only a few other great science fiction writers and with a literary quality of even fewer, importing modernist techniques into his novels and stories and probing every major theme of his generation: robotics, racism, drugs, space exploration, technological warfare, and ecology.In this first intensive review of Brunner's life and works, Jad Smith...
Under his own name and numerous pseudonyms, John Brunner (1934 1995) was one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of the late ...
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Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation
ISBN: 9780415631198 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Atlantis to Azeroth, Mark J.P. Wolf's study of imaginary worlds theorises world-building across mediums, including those in literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, and more. He argues that imaginary worlds - which are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transauthorial in nature - are dynamic objects of inquiry for media studies.
From Atlantis to Azeroth, Mark J.P. Wolf's study of imaginary worlds theorises world-building across mediums, including those in literature, comics, f...
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896,86 |
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Of Bread, Blood and the Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy
ISBN: 9780786470198 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using theories grounded in historicism, feminism, humanism, queer theory, as well as cultural, political, and media studies. The essayists demonstrate diverse perspectives regarding Collins's novels but their works have three elements in common: an appreciation of the trilogy as literature, a belief in its permanent value, and a need to share both appreciation and belief with fellow readers. The 21 essays that follow the context-setting introduction are...
This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins's epic trilogy spans multiple disciplines. The contributors probe the trilogy's meaning using theor...
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The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King's Epic Fantasy
ISBN: 9780451237996 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STEPHEN KING'S BESTSELLING DARK TOWER SERIES. "A valuable tool for exploring the series. Both newcomers and frequent visitors to Mid-World will be informed and delighted."--Stephen King The story of Roland Deschain of Gilead, the last gunslinger, and his lifelong quest to reach the tower and save humanity across infinite parallel worlds is one that has consumed Stephen King throughout his career as characters and concepts crossed back and forth between the series and the rest of his fictional universe. The Dark Tower Companion is the ultimate...
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO STEPHEN KING'S BESTSELLING DARK TOWER SERIES. "A valuable tool for exploring the series. Both newcomers and frequent v...
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91,22 |
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Beyond His Dark Materials: Innocence and Experience in the Fiction of Philip Pullman
ISBN: 9780786465088 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond the 'His Dark Materials' series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many diverse character creations of Philip Pullman. The picture books, novellas, and novels written for children, adolescents, and adults are analysed through the themes of innocence and experience, and the journeys Pullman sets his characters on, journeys through which they learn that one must embrace change, loss, and suffering to grow in wisdom and grace.
Beyond the 'His Dark Materials' series lies a vast fictional realm populated by the many diverse character creations of Philip Pullman. The picture bo...
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Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers
ISBN: 9780415636933 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Children's Literature Association Edited Book Award From the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Feed to the spirited young rebels of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy, the protagonists of Young Adult dystopias are introducing a new generation of readers to the pleasures and challenges of dystopian imaginings. As the dark universes of YA dystopias continue to flood the market, Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: Brave New Teenagers offers a critical evaluation of the literary and political potentials of... Winner of the Children's Literature Association Edited Book Award From the jaded, wired teenagers of M.T. Anderson's Fee... |
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The Time Machine: An Invention: A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
ISBN: 9780786468690 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Things to Come: A Critical Text of the 1935 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices
ISBN: 9780786468775 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Things to Come is the 1936 release of London Films, produced from the 1935 "film story" by H.G. Wells, the text of the present work. The book includes more than 100 illustrations, most of them publicity stills that are all the more relevant because Wells, for a script writer, had unusual control over the actual film production. The images are very much a direct expression of his film story. Done at age 70, Things to Come reflects on a long literary career, in both fiction and nonfiction, often given to the fate of man and the prospect of a unified world state, a utopian future...
Things to Come is the 1936 release of London Films, produced from the 1935 "film story" by H.G. Wells, the text of the present work. The book i...
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The Science Fiction Reboot: Canon, Innovation and Fandom in Refashioned Franchises
ISBN: 9780786465095 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This analysis examines several recent reimagined science fiction franchises (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, V, and Star Wars) in order to capture how reboots work from a fan perspective. Previous encounters with these stories make the reboot experience distinct for fan-viewers, who bring with them a set of expectations and knowledge, often tied to franchise canon that cannot be separated from the new film or television series. Even when elements of the original versions are maintained, memories of them influence the narrative encounter. This book considers reimagined texts from several...
This analysis examines several recent reimagined science fiction franchises (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, V, and Star Wars) in order to capture ho...
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Teaching with Harry Potter: Essays on Classroom Wizardry from Elementary School to College
ISBN: 9780786472017 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education. Today, teachers across the world are harnessing the power of the series to teach history, gender studies, chemistry, religion, philosophy, sociology, architecture, Latin, medieval studies, astronomy, SAT skills, and much more.
These essays discuss the diverse educational possibilities of J.K. Rowling's books. Teachers of younger students use Harry and Hermione to encourage kids with disabilities or show girls the power of being brainy scientists. Students are...
The Harry Potter phenomenon created a surge in reading with a lasting effect on all areas of culture, especially education. Today, teachers across the...
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Myths and Motifs of the Mortal Instruments
ISBN: 9781936294237 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With vampires, fairies, angels, romance, steampunk, and modern New York all in one series, Cassandra Clare is exploding onto the scene. This book explores the deeper world of the Shadowhunters:
. Parabatai, Nephilim, blessings, and runes . Lucifer, Ithuriel, Lilith, Agramon, and other angels and demons . Ancient legends of werewolves, vampires, and fairyfolk . Clare's clever Easter eggs from pop culture and literature . The classic heroine's journey .Muslim angels, Hindu prayers, the Jewish Book of Raziel, and the Christian Grail There's something for everyone, as this... With vampires, fairies, angels, romance, steampunk, and modern New York all in one series, Cassandra Clare is exploding onto the scene. This book expl...
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A Sense-of-Wonderful Century: Explorations of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films
ISBN: 9781434445063 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book gathers together many of the illuminating essays on science fiction and fantasy film penned by a major critic in the SF field. The pieces are roughly organized in the chronological order of when the movies and television programs being discussed first appeared, with essays providing more general overviews clustered near the beginning and end of the volume, to provide the overall aura of a historical survey. Although this book does not pretend to provide a comprehensive history of science fiction and fantasy films, it does intermingle analyses of films and TV programs with some...
This book gathers together many of the illuminating essays on science fiction and fantasy film penned by a major critic in the SF field. The pieces ar...
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Shadows and Chivalry: C. S. Lewis and George MacDonald on Suffering, Evil and Goodness
ISBN: 9781935688013 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. SHADOWS AND CHIVALRY studies the influence of George MacDonald, a nineteenth-century Scottish novelist and fantasy writer, upon one of the most influential writers of modern times, C. S. Lewis - the creator of Narnia, literary critic, and best-selling apologist. While other books, quoting Lewis himself, have only mentioned the fact that Lewis called MacDonald his "master," and that MacDonald's Phantastes helped "baptize" Lewis's imagination, this study attempts to trace the overall effect of MacDonald's work on Lewis's thought and imagination. Without ever ceasing to be a story of one man's...
SHADOWS AND CHIVALRY studies the influence of George MacDonald, a nineteenth-century Scottish novelist and fantasy writer, upon one of the most influe...
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J. R. R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam
ISBN: 9780801478871 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A moving and thoughtful tribute, this book, originally published in 1979, offers fourteen essays dedicated to the memory of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 1973). The contributors, a distinguished group of his friends, colleagues, and former students, address a wide and diverse range of subjects. The first part of the book contains material on Tolkien the man and the scholar. It includes his obituary notices from The Times of London and his valedictory address at Oxford in which he points out, eloquently and purposefully, the artificiality of the split between language and literary study. The... A moving and thoughtful tribute, this book, originally published in 1979, offers fourteen essays dedicated to the memory of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 ... |
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Miracle Enough: Papers on the Works of Mervyn Peake
ISBN: 9781443844116 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To mark the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth, the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy (University of Chichester) organized an international conference in July 2011 entitled Mervyn Peake and the Fantasy Tradition. Papers were presented by scholars, artists, and writers from all over the world, and here we have a selection of them. No other comparable collection of essays on Peake has ever been published. The contributors take a wide variety of approaches to Peake's work - not just the Gormenghast trilogy but also his books for children, his poetry, and his art. They compare...
To mark the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth, the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy (University of Chichester) organized an interna...
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Tech Anxiety: Artificial Intelligence and Ontological Awakening in Four Science Fiction Novels
ISBN: 9780786466481 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that human subjects feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Neuromancer, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Cloud Atlas. By exploring this anxiety, something profound can be revealed about what it means to be a person living in a technologically saturated society.
While many critical investigations of these novels focus on the dangerous and negative implications of artificial intelligence, this work uses Martin... This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that human subjects feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four scien...
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With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature
ISBN: 9781936235834 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among developed nations, Israel's origin is in a utopian novel, Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (1902), which predicted the future Jewish state. Jewish writing in the Diaspora has always tended toward the fantastic, the mystical, and the magical. And yet, from its very inception, Israeli literature has been stubbornly realistic. The present volume challenges this stance. Originally published in Hebrew in 2009,...
Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical ide...
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652,13 |
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Girls Transforming: Invisibility and Age-Shifting in Children's Fantasy Fiction Since the 1970s
ISBN: 9780786461363 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English-language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging. The main focus is on English-language fantasy...
This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English-language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body tra...
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218,89 |
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The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick
ISBN: 9780199743254 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widely recognized as one of the most imaginative writers of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick helped to shape science fiction into the popular genre it is today. His stories, renowned for their sophisticated philosophical themes and startling portrayals of simulated realities, inspired numerous television and film adaptations, including the 1982 cult classic Blade Runner.
Dick's personal life took on an otherwordly quality when, in 1974, he famously had a series of bizarre visions. According to Dick, a pink light beamed psychic information into his brain, awakening memories of a... Widely recognized as one of the most imaginative writers of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick helped to shape science fiction into the popular genre it...
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